Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Lastforce and Gastropoda

The last, perhaps, day of Taskforce testing. I made one further change last night, reverting some of the complex pathing to how things were before, but with some new caveats and rules for squares which can't be walked on, such as windows or spiky things. These could technically be walked up into or falled down onto.

I've played the game 5 or 6 times today and found no more issues, so it's entered the next stage of testing; for others to try.

In other news the Animalia 2020 Remaster was annoyingly rejected by Distrokid as one track, Gastropoda, has a new name. This track was named Gastropoda, after snails, when written in 2004, but I mistakenly entered the name of Cephalopoda when submitting it for digital distribution. I had hoped to fix this error in this remaster, and have renamed the new recording, but the track was rejected as 'existing tracks' must have the same name and meta-data. This is annoying because it is a new recording with a new ISRC, not an existing track, and it was an attempt to correct the original error, not create a new one. The album is a new release of remastered recordings and not a re-release.

One option is to retain the new name on a CD release and ignore Spotify (or whoever the 'streaming services' Distrokid refer to are - it is curious that several rules regarding all sorts of things from track/album names to things like this apply only to Distrokid, and that my other distributor Emubands, seemed to manage without them).